Citations:dead name

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English citations of dead name

2013, Anne Cognito, Sunlight in the Darkness : My life as a trans woman in the shadows (→ISBN), page 94:
Despite his terrible memory he soon realised who I was and my old name was safe. He then came out with a frankly brilliant alternative for old name/dead name/former name: he calls it my maiden name. It seems so appropriate; I just love it.
2016, Michele Angello, Ali Bowman, Raising the Transgender Child: A Complete Guide for Parents, Families, and Caregivers (Seal Press, →ISBN):
I've heard I should never "dead name" someone. What is dead naming, and why should I never do it?

Someone's "dead name" is a name they no longer use, a name that was given to them at birth. Often this name reflects the gender they were assigned at birth. [...] Also, for many people, their dead name carries a lot of emotional baggage. For some people, [...] calling them by their dead name can out them[.]
2022 June 21, Dan Shive, “Comic for Tuesday, Jun 21, 2022”, in El Goonish Shive - EGS:NP‎^[1], archived from the original on 4 August 2022:
All that said, calling anyone by their dead name is very likely to bother them (to put it mildly), and adjectives such as "formerly" don't make it better. It is highly recommended that one does not do that.

1990, Workshop proceedings: Mach, October 4-5, 1990, Burlington, Vermont
When a task tries to send a message to a dead name, the resulting error lets the task know that the port died and its send right is no longer valid. The task can then deallocate the dead name. Like send rights, dead names have ...
2007, Elizabeth Haydon, The Assassin King (→ISBN):
But, as always, there was no taste of any of the names on the wind. Finally, he intoned the last name. Ysk. This name, of course, was different. Unlike the others, it was the dead name of a living being, a name once given, in another lifetime, to a ...
2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings: A Novel (→ISBN), page 313:
That is a dead name of a dead woman in a dead city. Keep running because she's dead.